— Theresa May met with leaders from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to tell them they will have a direct line into Brexit discussions via a newly created forum chaired by Brexit Secretary David Davis. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told reporters as she left the meeting that she found “large parts” of it “deeply frustrating.”

— How many bankers will leave London after Brexit? The head of the British Bankers’ Association warned in the Observer Sunday that banks are already planning to relocate staff away from London by early 2017. POLITICO’s Francesco Guerrera estimates that the numbers will be lower than some reports suggest and thinks that at most 10,000 jobs will go from the 10 major global banks, fund managers, hedge funds and other banks.

— Plenty of Brexit in the House of Commons this week. On Tuesday morning, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency Sir James Bevan, and DEFRA Secretary of State Andrea Leadsom will discuss the “Future of the Natural Environment after the EU” with the environmental audit committee. On Wednesday afternoon, Jo Johnson, minister of state for science, research and innovation, and Robin Walker, a minister from the Brexit department, will be questioned by the science and technology committee on the implications and opportunities for science and research of leaving the EU. Theresa May will give a statement to the House of Commons at 3.30pm (local time) on last week’s fractious European Council summit.

INSIGHT

Of all the many unexpected consequences of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, the new reality of “Brexit by sub-committee” is one of the more unexpected.

First, we discovered the ultimate authority on Brexit would not be parliament — whose sovereignty the Brexiteers so publicly campaigned for — but a new sub-committee of the U.K. cabinet.

Today we learn of an even more obscure government body with the potential to reshape British politics: the catchily named “sub-committee of the Joint Ministerial Committee.”

This new body, chaired by Brexit Secretary David Davis, aims to bind the three devolved administrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast into the process of taking Britain out of the EU.

It will give Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon, Wales’ Carwyn Jones and Northern Ireland’s Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness a direct line into the U.K.’s divorce negotiations with Brussels, with regular meetings penciled in before Article 50 is triggered next year.

Officially, it will be little more than a sub-committee of the U.K wide body, set up in 2009, which was supposed to bring together Downing Street and the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but, until now, has met infrequently.

While clearly politically calculated, May’s commitment to giving Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland more involvement in the Brexit process is a practical reflection of Britain’s diverging politics.

May needs to show that London is listening to the concerns outside England – principally in Scotland where a clear majority voted to stay and the government is threatening a second independence vote. With the SNP so dominant, it is no longer possible to treat England and Scotland as the same country as it was under Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

But the prime minister is also bound by the conflicting politically reality that she cannot give Sturgeon what she wants — continued membership of the EU or special status in the single market — for fear of being seen as failing to deliver Brexit for the U.K. as a whole.

May is left scrabbling for ways to more permanently lock Edinburgh into the union. Today’s announcement is one of the first steps towards a more formal place for Holyrood within the governance of the U.K.

Whether Westminster can move quickly enough to sate Scotland’s thirst for power remains to be seen.

— Without a post-Brexit trade deal most EU countries will pay higher tariffs than their British counterparts, according to a report by think tank Civitas. The report calculates that British exporters would have to pay £5.2 billion annually, while their EU counterparts would shell out £12.9 billion.

— Dozens of MPs have called on the government to honor the controversial pledge to spend £350 million more a week on the NHS post Brexit. The Vote Leave Watch group said “this government will not be able to run away from the promises of Brexit campaigners.”

— Will the U.K.’s borders be ready in time for a hard Brexit? Businesses warn there could be a “major disruption” at the U.K.’s borders as Britain struggles to upgrade a troubled computer system in order to cope with a huge increase in customs declarations expected if the country leaves the EU customs union.

— A secret plan to slash corporation tax from 20 to 10 percent has been hatched as a “nuclear option” if the EU blocks a free-trade deal with the U.K. or refuses to give financial services firms access to the European market. Senior figures in Downing Street believe the drastic move would encourage the remaining EU 27 to play nice and, failing that, would incentivise firms to stay in Britain.

— Plans to build what would be Scotland’s largest pumped-storage power station have been put on hold because of uncertainty over the U.K.’s post-Brexit energy policy.

— New report on how to simplify drug rules and reduce the time it takes to give patients access to new medicines recommends that the U.K. should create a partnership between national agencies, including NHS England, NICE, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and health care regulator NHS Improvement. This would mirror a service provided by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which Britain would lose access to if it leaves the single market.

— Brexit Secretary David Davis has been warned he is being spied on by every other government in the EU, according to the Sun. The warning came from Oliver Robbins, the permanent secretary of the Brexit department, who told Davis that because the Brexit secretary is one of just a handful of people who will know May’s strategy, he is now “a painted man.”

— A city by any other name … : On Thursday, the City of London Corporation published a PwC report proposing “regional visas” to allow companies to hire skilled foreign workers after Brexit. There was only one problem: the glossy report’s cover was graced by a photo of the business district of Paris, a city that’s aggressively trying to steal skilled workers from London. Both PwC and the Corporation denied responsibility.

— A candidate for the leadership of UKIP has said he made a mistake when he claimed that “a homosexual donkey” raped his horse. John Rees-Evans made the comment in 2014 and said it was merely “playful banter.”